Dear Sprung,
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate your local computer
scrap yard and foist a "386" computer. Resuscitate it using 4 megabytes of ram, a
5-1/4" floppy and a 100Mb drive. (You may actually have to do some research here.)
When you have done this, go to a computer swap meet and obtain a copy of MS dos 6.0
and a copy of Windows 3.0. It may help if you wear a button-up shirt (buttoned to the
top), plaid polyester slacks and unwashed hair. Make sure to yell "dos roolz" a lot.
Install dos.. oops... go to that website again and read up on ctrl-alt-del.
Install dos, then Windows.
About now, you will have discovered a thing called "drivers".
If you make it this far, report back for further instructions.
Good luck.

Shel-hed wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:09:13 -0800, "trout" <> wrote in
> 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
>
>> Shel-hed wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 Jan 2004 02:57:34 GMT, Boomer <>
>>> wrote in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
>>>
>>>> Shel-hed, <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh great. Now what will we do? :-(
>>>>
>>>> Just control + delete?
>>>> Alternative, penguin?!
>>>
>>> Do penguins eat much?
>>
>> Not really. But they *do* leave their droppings everywhere.
>
> How are they potty trained? Do you throw them outside once in a
> while, or do you just put the whole computer in a litter box?

They serve their droppings up on a platter, and wait expectantly for
expressions of envy and admiration.
> If I press ctrl-alt-del, will the penguin squawk?

For this, and almost any other conceivable reason.
> I was informed by a very knowledgeable secretary that the proper way
> to shut down a computer was to press ctrl-alt-del, then quickly turn
> it off. Will the penguin now turn it off?

No, it will just giggle and elbow the the other penguins.
--
"These are nasty, tricky creatures. In case of infestation, call a
professional."

"William Poaster" <> wrote in message
news...
: It was on Thu, 29 Jan 2004 02:57:34 +0000, just as I was halfway
through a
: large jam doughnut, that Boomer wrote:
:
: > Shel-hed, <> wrote:
: >
: >> On 29 Jan 2004 02:22:01 GMT, Boomer
: >> <> wrote in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
: >>
: >>>David Bradley, the man who invented Ctrl +Alt +Delete retires
: >>>http://www.nbc17.com/news/2800201/detail.html
: >>
: >> Oh great. Now what will we do? :-(
: >
: > Just control + delete?
: > Alternative, penguin?!
:
: Ctrl +Alt +Delete just brings up the menu:-
: "What do you want to do next?"
: Log in as different user
I do not get this option, you pig.
: Turn off computer
: Restart computer
I do get the option to also close specific $hit that is running and has,
for some reason that only Gates & Co. know, stopped responding.

You won't, you're using Gatesware.
If I choose to log in as a different user, I can also choose whether to
run KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment..etc.
> : Turn off computer
> : Restart computer
> I do get the option to also close specific $hit that is running and has,
> for some reason that only Gates & Co. know, stopped responding.

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